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七年级英语Unit1_Can_you_play_the_guitar教案

Unit 1 Can you play the guitar？

Ⅰ、Teaching content（教学内容）: period 5

Ⅱ、Teaching goals （教学目标）:

1.Knowledge goals（知识目标）:

(1) To master some new words: dance, sing, swim, paint, speak English, play

the guitar, play chess, and so on.

(2) To master the usage of modal verb“can”.

2. Ability goals（能力目标）:

(1) use“can”to talk about one’s abilities and likes

(2) Arouse students’ interest in English by group work, and help students to

form good learning habits.

3. Emotion goals（情感目标）:

To help students to love English, show their abilities, and communicate with other people actively.

Ⅲ、Teaching methods(教学方法):

任务教学法、情境教学法、游戏教学法、激励评价教学法

Ⅳ、Teaching tools(教具):

视频、音频、多媒体课件、图片

Ⅴ、Teaching procedures(教学流程)：

二、Teaching Procedures

Period 5

Additional materials to bring to class

Harmonica and guitar or other two musical instruments to use in the language goal section PowerPoint with pictures of basketball, volleyball and some music instruments.

Step 1 Revision and lead in

The teacher says I like basketball. Then asks: Do you like basketball/ volleyball? Do you want to join a basketball club?

Step 2 Presentation

Ask the students to look at the pictures of Page 5 , there are some clubs in it. Let’s look at the clubs. What are they? They are art club, English club, chess club, swimming club and music club. What club do you want to join? Help the students to answer I want to join the art club and so on. If the school has clubs, the teacher can ask the students: What clubs do we have in our school? The teacher writes What club do you want to j oin? I want to join… on the blackboard. Ask the students to practice it.

Then introduces the key vocabularies and the words can and can’t.

The teacher says to the students who say he/she wants to join the basketball club: Can you play basketball? Help the students say Yes, I can. No, I can’t. Then repeat with other actions or pictures, such as play volleyball.

Show the students the activities the people in each club can do with the same step.

Then repeat with dance, swim, play chess, paint, speak English and play the guitar with the help of doing the action. Or we can use the PowerPoint to help us to show the students what we can do. The teacher can ask the students to practice the following dialogues with can.

Can you dance? Yes, I can. / No, I can’t.

Can he paint? Yes, he can. /No, he can’t.

Can she speak English? Yes, she can. / No, she can’t.

Can you speak English? Yes, we can. / No, we can’t.

Can you play it well? Yes, I can. / No, I can’t.

Do the action and read the new words and phrases.

Ask the students to practice can and can’t. Ask the students to practice can you play it well?

At the same time, the teacher write down sing, dance, swim, play chess, paint, speak English, and play the guitar on the blackboard. Ask the students to read after the teacher.

Step 3 A game

To be more familiar with the words and phrases, the teacher can organize a game like this:

Write the words and phrases on pieces of paper. Ask one of the students come to the front and choose one of the paper, then do the action. Ask other students to guess what he or she can do. Then exchange.

Step 4 Exercise

Task 1:

Look at the pictures on Page 5. Points to the activities the people in each club are doing. Say something about each club’s activity clearly. For example, This is a chess club. See the chess? They are playing chess.

Task 2.

Say each conversation with a student in Part 2. After doing this, play the recording the first time.

Students only listen. Play the recording a second time. This time ask the students to listen to the conversations and write a number 1 next to the first conversation they hear, a number 2 next to the second one they hear, and a number 3 next to the third one they hear. Point out the sample answer. The answers are c b a

Task 3

1c.Say the sample conversations. Have students repeat. Then ask students to practice the conversations in pairs. Ask them to use the vocabulary from 2a. As students work, listen in on various pairs so that you can check progress and help with pronunciation as needed.

After students have had a chance to practice the conversations, ask pairs to come to the front of the room and act out one of their conversations.

Step 5 Homework

Task : fill in the form. Write down three things you can do and three things you can not do.

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-OK, you can dress up ____ white. [ ] A as , in B in, as C for, with D as, with 6.-_____I open the window, Mum? -No, you_______. It’s cold outside. [ ] A. Can, may not B. Can, mustn’t C. May, may not D. May, mustn’t 7.We often have a party ______ the evening ______Friday. [ ] A．in, of B．on, in C．in , in D．on, of 8.______do you read English every morning? For twenty minutes. [ ] A．How often B．How long C．How soon D．How much 9.These shoes are _______. Could you look after _______ for_____? [ ] A my, it, me B his, them, me C mine, them, me D theirs, them, it

初中英语七年级下册短文

Unit 1 Are you busy after school? No? Can you speak English? Yes? Then we need you to help with sports for English-speaking students. It is relaxing and easy! Please come to the Students’Sports Center. Call Mr.Brown at 293-7742. We need help at the old people’s home. Are you free in July? Are you good with old people? Can you talk to them and play games with them? They can tell you stories, and you can make friends. It is interesting and fun! Please call us at 689-7729 today! Can you play the piano or the violin? Do you have time on the weekend? The school needs help to teach music. It is not difficult! Please call Mrs. Miller at 555-3721. Unit 2 Hi! I’m Tony. I don’t like to get up early. In the morning, I get up at eight. Then I go to school at eight thirty. I don’t have much time for breakfast, so I usually eat very quickly. For lunch, I usually eat hamburgers.After school, I sometimes play basketball for half an hour. When I get home, I always do my homework first. In the evening, I either watch TV or play computer games. At ten thirty, I brush my teeth and then go to bed. Marry is my sister. She usually gets up at six thirty. Then she always takes a shower and eats a good breakfast. After that, she goes to school at eight thirty. At twelve, she eats lots of fruit and vegetables for lunch. After lunch, she sometimes plays volleyball. She always eats ice-cream after dinner. She knows it’s not good her, but it tastes good! In the evening, she does her homework and usually swims or takes a walk. At nine thirty, she goes to bed. Unit 3 Crossing the River to School How do you get to school? Do you walk or ride a bike? Do you go by bus or by train? For many students, it’s easy to get to school. But for the students in one small village in China, it is difficult. There is a big river between their school and the village. There is no bridge and the river runs too quickly for boats. So these students go on a ropeway to cross the river to school. One 11-year-old boy, Liangliang, crosses the river every school day. But he is not afraid. “I love to play with my classmates. And I love my teacher. He’s like a father to me.”Many of the students and villagers never leave the village. It is their dream to have a bridge. Can their dream come true? Unit4 Dear Dr. Know, There are too many rules! At 6:00 a.m., my mom says, “Get up now and make you bed!”After breakfast, my mom always says, “Don’t leave the dirty dishes in the kitchen!” After that, I run to school because I can’t be late. At school, we have more rules------don’t be noisy, don’t eat in class, My dad says I can’t play basketball after school because I must do my homework. I can play only on weekends. After dinner, I can’t relax either. I must read a book before I can watch TV. But I have to go to bed before 10:00. Rules, rules, rules! It’s terrible! What can I do, Dr. Know? Dear Molly, I know how you feel. People always tell us, “Don’t do this!”or “You can’t do that!”but think about it, Molly. There are a lot of things you can do. You can play basketball on weekends. You can watch TV after you read a book. Parents and school are sometimes strict, but remember, they make rules help us. We have to follow them Good luck! Dr. Know Unit 5 Hello. We are students from Thailand, and we want to save the elephants. The elephant is one of Thailand’s symbols. Our first flag had a white elephant on it. This is a symbol of good luck. Elephants are smart animals. They can play soccer or music. They can also draw very well. People say that “an elephant never forgets.” Elephants can walk for a long time and never get lost. They can also remember places with food and water. This helps them to live.But elephant are in great danger.People cut down many trees so elephants are losing their homes. People also kill elephants for their ivory. Today there are only about 3,000 elephants (over 100,000 before). We must save the trees and not buy things made of ivory. Remember that March 13th is Thai Elephant Day. Unit 6 Today’s story is about Zhu Hui, a student from Shenzhen. He’s now studying in the United States. He’s living with an American family in New York. Today is the Dragon Boat Festival. It’s 9:00 a.m. And Zhu Hui’s family are at home. His mom and uncle are watching the boat race on TV. Is Zhu Hui also watching the races and eat zongzi? Well, it’s 9:00 p.m. In New York, and it’s the night before the festival.But there isn’t a Dragon Boat Festival in the US, so it’s like any other night for Zhu Hui and his host family. The mother is reading story to her young children. The father is watching a soccer game on TV. And what’s Zhu Hui doing? He’s talking on the phone to his cousin in Shenzhen. Zhu Hui misses his family and wishes to have his mom’s delicious zongzi. Zhu Hui likes New York and his host family a lot, but there’s still “no place like home.” ion 1